New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-06
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How Col. Andrews Came to succeed
Capt. Eads.
Says Pittsburgh dispatch to The st.
LOUIS Globe Democrat: Col. Andrews
lives in princely style on Nunnery hill,
Allegheny. His residence stands on
the rounded summit of mountain,
five hundred feet above the Allegheny
river. Statuary from Italy, paintings
and fresco work by French artists, and
curiosities and bric-a-bra from Mexi-
co, Central America, Egypt, Europe,
and different parts of the world fill the
palitial mansion. Most Of his time he
spends abroad. Mrs. Andrews was
with him in Mexico when Capt. Eads
died. She has since come home.
The story Of how Col. Andrews sue
ceeded Capt. Eads reads like romance.
just before his death. Capt Eads
said to an assemblage of Pittsburgh
business men:
'Col. Andrews has always been my
chief support in great undertaking s.
We married sisters, and have always
been linked together socially as we'll
as in business life. Forty three years
ago the first iron steamer that ever
foated in the Mississippi valley was
built here and soon afterward sunk at
the graveyard, on the Mississippi
twenty miles above Cairo. just about
that time I had formed copartnership
with my diseased and beloved friend,
William S. Nelson, for the purpose of
recovering such property, and one Of
our first successes consisted in raising
that very steamer, the Valley Forge.
That achievement brought us in con-
tact with Reuben Miller, ST., John
Harper, ST., and several others Of your
most honored citizens. Friendships
Were formed then which have been un-
marred by single incident from that
day to this. The underwriters of Pitts
burgh were the first to appoint the
young firm of Eads & Nelson their gen
eral agents to attend to their marine
losses on the entire western waters, a
mark Of confidence which was soon
followed by nearly every marine insur-
ance company in the United States,
while the operations of the firm extend
ed from Pittsburgh and Galena to the
Gulf of Mexico.
'When the war broke out Pitts
burgh supplied me with boilers. en-
gines, and lumber, and thousand and
one things needed in building the four
teen iron-clad gunboats which kept the
river open from Cairo to New Orleans,
and the men who furnished them
agreed to wait for their pay until got
mine from the government. When the
bridge across the Mississippi at st.
Louis was undertaken Pittsburgh
promptly responded to the call for iron
and steel for it, undertaking every
body else. Pittsburgh men built the
superstructure, while my stalwart and
honored friend from Allegheny, James
Andrews, founded its everlasting
piers on the solid rock more than 1S0
feet below the floods of the turbulent
river. When congress authorized us
to deepen the mouth of the great river,
[ again appealed to my trends here,
Allegheny Andrews undertook to
execute the work and Pittsbu men
supplied the stone, the coal, the viii
lows, machinery, etc., and they adj
Yanced large portion of the money we
needed, accepting the only security for
it that we had to ofer-namely, the
assurance which we gave them that we
could make the old river deepen its
own mouth by applying to it brush and
stone .5etties. Success was paw aud
profit, failure was utter loss, but our
lexicon does not contain any such word
as failure. Having thus virtually ex-
tended the mouth of the great rivey in
to the Atlantic, through the Florida
straits, and opened up to the people of
this great interior valley the markets
Of one-half of the world, we propose
now to finish that work by extending
the Mississippi river into the Pacific
ocean; that is, by building railway to
carry or ships across the Andes,
where they have invitingly bowed their
mighty crests low down, almost to the
sea level, and at the very spot where
they are nearest of all others to the
Father of Waters